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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Calvin, Scott
Titre(s) : Beyond Curie [Texte imprimé] : four women in physics and their remarkable discoveries, 1903 to 1963 / Scott Calvin,...
Publication : San Rafael, CA : Morgan & Claypool publishers, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (pagination multiple) : ill. en coul. ; 26 cm
Collection : IOP concise physics, ISSN 2054-7307
Lien à la collection : IOP concise physics (Print)
Note(s) : "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso. - Notes bibliogr.
In the 116 year history of the Nobel Prize in Physics, only two women have won the
award; Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Mayer (1963). During the 60 years between those
awards, several women did work of similar caliber. This book focuses on those women,
providing biographies for each that discuss both how they made their discoveries and
the gender-specific reception of those discoveries. It also discusses the Nobel process
and how society and the scientific community's treatment of them were influenced by
their gender
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Four women in physics and their remarkable discoveries, 1903
to 1963
Sujet(s) : Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena Payne (1900-1979)
Meitner, Lise (1878-1968)
Wu, Chien-shiung (1912-1997)
Göppert-Mayer, Maria (1906-1972)
Indice(s) Dewey :
509.22 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - Biographie collective
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781681746449. - ISBN 1681746441 (br.). - ISBN 9781681746456 (erroné). - ISBN
9781681746470 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465267975
Notice n° :
FRBNF46526797
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction. Why am I writing this book? ; An essential tension ; A few words
on names ; Cecilia Payne. Beyond Curie ; No insuperable objections ; The Harvard
Computers ; Starstuff ; Two astronomers from Cambridge ; Reactions ; Blocked paths
; Love (of science) levels all ranks ; Science summary : stellar spectra ; Lise
Meitner. Making up for lost time ; Questions of credit ; A scientific powerhouse
; Tumult ; How Nobel Prizes are selected ; Beyond uranium ; The breakdown of science
; Our Madame Curie ; Science summary : nuclear fission ; Chien-Shiung Wu. Mighty
hero ; Exile ; Pushing back ; Rising through the ranks ; 'Wasting her time' ;
Instant Nobel ; Honors ; Science summary : parity ; Maria Mayer. The seventh generation
; From nuisance to necessary ; A new era ; Magic ; A different way to win a race
; Quarter loafs ; A typical genius ; Science summary : nuclear shell model ; Afterword.
